Power outages linked to more emergency hospital visits for older adults (IMAGE)

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Power outages linked to more emergency hospital visits for older adults

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US county-level hospitalization rates and power outage counts in 2018 in the 2,161 counties included in main analysis.

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McBrien H, et al., 2025, PLOS Medicine, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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